Those of you reading this blog, those interested in the pursuit of productivity and work-life balance, and all those nice things, probably have a lot of dreams. It’s something that binds us. We want to be better in more than one area of our lives. There’s our health, our social lives, our personal work—and the
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Here’s a thought exercise: imagine you finally manage to beat the procrastination motivation monster for once. (For many of us, that would already be a fantasy.) But say you sit down to work, full of beautiful productive motivation, ready to take on the day. Then what? Surely you’re going to try to get some work
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Here’s a little not-so-secret secret: we all miss the mark sometimes. Sure, we’re all trying our best. We all have things we want to accomplish with our lives. We have a goal we’re chasing, and we’re determined to achieve it. We think about how great it would be if we could just get it done.
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There is so much each and every one of us has to deal with, every day, to keep ourselves in check. To keep striving toward being healthy and accomplished. Sometimes it feels like, with all the things we’re supposed to do daily, there’s no room left in our mind for, you know, anything else. How
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If you’ve spent any time consuming productivity content in the last few years, you’ve likely been exposed to “digital minimalism” rhetoric. It’s all these proclamations that claim to be the be-all-and-end-all of healthy ways to navigate a world increasingly uncomfortably surrounded by screens. Monitoring screen time like a hawk. Keeping your phone in your pocket
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Why is motivation something that’s never completely dealt with? Why are issues with motivation always…there? They’re seemingly an unrelenting part of the human experience. They’re also seemingly a universal experience for anyone trying to accomplish anything in their life. There’s some comfort in that, to be sure, but it’s also confounding. Has no one cracked
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We spend a lot of time here at RescueTime talking about how to make ourselves more productive. How to make ourselves, in a sense, more powerful in our work and the way we go about it. And there are myriad powerful forces and strategies out there we can harness to aid us in this journey. Of
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What’s the most productive part of your day? That time of day when you feel your distractions and annoyances melt away, and against all odds, manage to find yourself in a flow state where work actually gets finished? Maybe you’re one of those self-starters who are raring to go right when you sit down at
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You may have lied to yourself like this before: “My desk isn’t clean—I couldn’t possibly start working.” “After I fold the laundry and do the dishes, I’ll feel better. Then I can get started.” “This isn’t the office of someone who is successful at work.” The beliefs we allow to limit us are often some
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For some reason this is one of the hardest concepts for us to nail as human beings: big, important, and impressive achievements take time. They don’t happen overnight. It wouldn’t make sense if they did. They wouldn’t even be big and impressive and important if they did. Things like that take more than just time.
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